Syrian Civil WarTurkish-backed rebels advance on the symbolic ISIL-controlled town of Dabiq, in northern Syria. ISIL believes Dabiq is the location where an apocalyptic battle will take place shortly before the end of the world. (BBC)

Syrian Civil WarTurkish-backed rebels advance on the symbolic ISIL-controlled town of Dabiq, in northern Syria. ISIL believes Dabiq is the location where an apocalyptic battle will take place shortly before the end of the world. (BBC)

A pickup truck hurls off San Diego, California's Coronado Bridge, plummets some 60 feet, and crashes onto a park where hundreds of people had gathered for a motorcycle rally, killing four people in a vendor's booth and injuring eight others. (Reuters) Saturday October 15, 2016 Drunk Navy Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges Plunges Off Bridge Into Crowd In San Diego, Navy sailor Richard Anthony Sepolio who was stationed nearby faces DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges after he allegedly lost control and drove his pickup truck plunging off a bridge into a crowded vendors booth at a festival below. Four were killed and 9 were injured.

Police in China detain 75 people in connection with a service that determined the female gender of unborn babies for the purpose of abortion. Authorities say that at least 300 people were involved in the illegal service in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Expectant parents wanting male children smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing. China ended its one-child policy last year. (BBC)

Suicide bombing, Shooting 53+ (+ at least 6) 44+ Iraq Baghdad, Iraq 2016 October Baghdad attacks: Suicide bomber targets mourning tent in Baghdad, kills 41.[92] [93] In a second incident, the wife and three children of Numan al-Mujamaie, the leader of the Ishaqi Mobilization militia, were killed when gunmen stormed his house in the town of Ishaq in his absence.[94] Islamic State Iraqi Civil War terrorlist

Shooting 8 (+3) 11 Iraq Tikrit, Iraq Eight policemen were killed and 11 others wounded in an attack which took place Mutaibija, south of the city of the city of Tikrit, while the militants had three killed.[95] Islamic State Iraqi Civil War terrorlist